The examples you gave -- USB1, PS2, serial -- are legacy ports. Nowadays, the vast majority of computers do not have any of these. USB3 on USB-C and Thunderbolt have replaced them. Yes USB2/3 steps down to USB1 speeds in most cases, but there are issues sometimes where it doesn't work and you actually have to replace the obsolete equipment or keep an old-style computer around. Yes, serial is sometimes used on old routers/switches which means you might need an adapter if you buy new equipment.
You seem very upset. Do you feel threatened by new things? Step off the amphetamines please.
US wages for service workers need to be enough for them to survive. They are kept artificially low which then makes the workers reliant on tips. Raise the minimum wage, people have money which they spend in the local economy and everyone prospers. Take a look at other places where minimum wages have risen and everything seems to be working out.
The alternative is what has been going on -- people without enough to live are sponsored by the Federal govt, which costs taxpayers, and companies are pushing automation even at POS which takes away more jobs. With the increases in performance through automation, some jobs will transition to robots and there's no going back.
What happens when your job is automated away, do we need to go to a guaranteed income? Do you see how complex this whole thing is, now that we don't require people to perform huge swaths of jobs anymore -- and those swaths are growing?
Your political leaning may determine whether you think of this as a crisis that needs solving to prevent the harm to people, or if you think "meh, it's their problem, the business' profits are more important than the humans' rights and comfort". The problem is too many people are in the latter group, and only after they have lost everything do they understand that putting corporations first means people get hurt.
That logic only holds while there are no 3rd party alternatives. Since there is a viable 3rd party ecosystem, this design change doesn't necessarily net Apple any money through adapters.
That doesn't mean I am happy I don't have a new headphone adapter on my Macbook Pro. Oh wait, even their base model has one. Maybe you're talking about the iMac not having a headphone jack. Oh wait... the iMac also has a headphone jack.
So your ire must be that the most portable Apple gadgets -- the iPhone and the iPad -- no longer tether the user unless you buy a dongle. I can't get excited about that, it doesn't affect me in any way, and if I wanted to use headphones with either device I would prefer not to be tethered to the device. Of course you may have a different opinion, but it seems silly to get all worked up about it. You don't get upset because there isn't a built-in SCSI or FireWire connector on modern computers do you? Even though we can all agree that those interfaces may have some utility to some people? Apple ditched the floppy and people lost their minds. They stopped providing parallel ports and surely the gods were mad at us and we would not survive. Yet we did, and today we're happy not to be burdened with extra legacy connectors. Do you really want USB2 or USB3 connectors on a new machine? Most people probably don't.
Painting this as some conspiracy to extract money is something only the paranoid do. We're better than that.
It is a national security issue to have independent manufacturing facilities. We don't want to be dependent on other countries' cooperation even if it's our fault we cause the relationship to be tarnished. As we have discovered it becomes more and more difficult to do this as time progresses and processes become even more intertwined and sophisticated.
There is no reason we cannot have both nurses and factory workers. Everyone needs to eat, give the available hands another opportunity to earn money and help them succeed in society. We cannot be a complete nation without our blue-collar brothers and sisters, and it is morally wrong to want that.
Ding ding ding, finally someone who understands the issue.
If we are to bring back manufacturing to the US, we have to start somewhere. Companies who have large volume and specialty requirements probably won't be the first ones leading this, there are way too many dependencies to make this happen. We need some smaller companies with more mainstream needs to lead the way.
I think his point is that you have to develop different ways of doing things when you get to a much larger scale, for instance the connectors and safeties that work at 20MW don't directly scale to 200MW. You have to make changes. Like many things, "scaling up" doesn't just mean you have the same setup only bigger.
Apple supports open source projects such as CUPS, Swift, Bonjour, Webkit... there are quite a few large projects. Check out https://developer.apple.com/op... . They design their own chips which are used in iPhone and iPad devices as well as a security / TouchBar chip used in their laptops. Those chips have industry-leading benchmarks. Other than Samsung they are one of the few that design their own chips.
Their products ARE different... that's why we buy them. Give them a try and see if it's for you... return them if you don't like them. Not everything is for everybody but lots of people have tried their products and are happy with them. Who knows you may be pleasantly surprised.
My iPhone XR can use any charging mat based on the Qi standard. I don't have to purchase one from Apple, the cheap one I bought works fine. Maybe the Apple version charges quicker but I don't really care, I charge it overnight while I sleep.
Wireless charging makes sense for some people in some circumstances. I bought a cheap "Atomi Power Pad 3x" mat which gives 10W for each of 3 pads placed next to each other. For me, the wear and tear on the rubberized case and charging cable over time is more inconvenient than putting the device on the pad when I sleep. This charger lights up when it's charging a device so it's pretty easy to place the phone on it in the dark. YMMV and all that.
Tying to a single vendor? Maybe I missed something, my iPhone XR uses an "Atomi Power Pad 3x" charging mat just fine. So apparently I have choices on which pad to use.
Are you upset because the Apple device may or may not work with non-Apple devices, is that it? I'm trying to understand the issue here. Another competing product usually makes everyone else tighten their stuff, resulting in better offerings for customers. Leapfrogging is great.
1. Versioning. I get hourly Time Machine backups by not storing my only copy to the cloud.
2. Large files are clunky to save to and retrieve from cloud
3. Windows 10 recently had an issue where people's documents saved to the Microsoft cloud (OneDrive) were lost. That alone should be good enough reason not to store important documents "in the cloud" but especially with Microsoft's cloud.
Windows 10 has a bunch of serious issues, that's not news, and those who can avoid it are lucky. Guess what? My machine is wanting to install the Windows feature update again, and I'm staving it off because the last time I tried it, after 2 hours of WTF-is-it-doing and then trying to roll back, it left things in such a mess after the "successful" rollback that I restored the entire VM from backup.
This is one reason why I no longer store documents within the VM, and do most of my work remoted onto Windows servers which seem to have fewer issues. Between Office 365 "updates" and forced Windows "updates" my machine has never been so "updated" yet suffering from so many issues before... and I go back to Windows 3.0
I would create another VM from scratch, but Windows 10 is the issue here. What a hot mess!
I use a 32" Samsung TV -- neutered without wifi -- as my secondary monitor when I work from home. A single HDMI cable transfers sound and graphics to the TV. If you want to add a cable to a dock that provides all the other things you mention, you can do it with a single cable from a laptop to the dock. A phone may require a special converter, such as a Lightning-to-HDMI cable with passthrough power. Or you can use wireless charging if your phone is capable and simplify things a little bit.
The whole reason you want to use a separate dock is that interfaces and connections change very frequently. It's easier to get a dock with everything you want in it than try to get a decent TV also with every connector you want in it. For instance, this TV is going to need a wire with a plate for wireless phone charging, right? How long of a wire at what gauge? No, seriously, different wattage wireless phone charging solutions require limits on wire length. Same for the larger phone / tablet chargers, it often makes a lot of sense to use an electrical extension cord to get the wireless charger close to where you need it rather than extend the charger cable.
In the computer industry, different adapters have come and gone over the years, it's the same thing, better to have a dock you can replace than have a TV with the equivalent of yesterday's SCSi / serial / parallel interfaces on it.
It's good to see someone else who remembers Sony's CD rootkit fiasco and their abrupt stance on their Linux add-ons. I won't buy Sony anymore either. My children got me a PS2 many many years ago and I still have it, that's the one exception.
I bought one before I knew about the problems. One fix: don't give the Samsung TV wifi access, and plug a Roku or such into it instead. The built-in Netflix and apps are so slow that they're almost useless anyway, apparently they skimped big-time on the CPU. Like you, I will never purchase a Samsung TV again.
I grew up in a different time. I'm sure things like this occurred infrequently. Nowadays people film bad behavior for laughs and share with their friends, each trying to be more outrageous. There seems to be little morality anymore, it's all selfishness and laughing at someone whom you've screwed over.
It really makes me depressed thinking about the future. It's like Clockwork Orange is being mimicked by the mainstream. How incredibly sad.
Absolutely agree. Craftsman electric tools have gotten worse over the years as many are rebranded Ryobi and others. Once Sears sold Craftsman rights to Lowe's they lost one of my only reasons for shopping at Sears -- note that was after Craftsman was purchased by Stanley. Maybe a better way to say that is here: https://www.chicagotribune.com...
I wear headphones for 2 reasons: I need to block out noise, and I want to listen to music in a place where I can't use my home audio system. That's pretty much it. I don't sleep with them, I don't even recline with them on, that isn't my use case. Mostly I wear them at work but not even daily, I have a lot of days where I would be constantly taking them off with interruptions.
My headphones' battery lasts well more than a workday, they claim 30 hours but I'm not exactly sure how long they last since I charge them every few times I use them. If you're wearing headphones so long each day at a power rating that eats batteries so quickly you need a second pair, you're at serious risk of damaged hearing and ear infections.
$60 for a pair -- or a second pair -- is probably trivial to most people, that's a night out at the movies for 2 people nowadays or a non-alcoholic dinner for 2, or a tank of premium gas, or a new game for your Playstation / XBox, or a few drinks in an upscale bar. If it's that important to you, you will find the funding for it.
A $5-10 pair of headphones is awful no matter what the connection choice is, you need to spend considerably more to have any quality. An inexpensive Bluetooth headset that works well for me is the Cowin E7, around $60 on Amazon right now. It offers automatic noise cancellation which you can turn off if you don't like it. I found with that on, and in normal ambient sound situations, it enhances the music by letting me lower the volume, sometimes to its minimal setting. If I am at home with one of my audio systems and everything is quiet and I'm willing to sit in the zone where everything is optimized, then of course the home audio system wins hands down. If I'm moving around, maybe cooking while listening to music, of course the staging isn't perfect and there is loss of quality.
So really the key is the environment in which you're using these. While staging for headphones can be really great, there is always something changed by using them. Same with a higher-end audio system in a noisy or acoustically poor environment. Even lower-end wireless solutions such as Rocketfish which uses radio to wirelessly transmit sound to speakers has better quality than you will notice in most environments.
Huh? Did you even try to Google for that? Of course you can revert to an older version. You do need a computer. Phone store employees can help you also, they just want your phone to work so they can bill you for service. https://www.newsweek.com/remov... https://www.imore.com/how-to-d...
I went back to look at some comments I made earlier today and although they're listed in the "comments" right-hand scrollbar, when I actually click on my comments list, they do not show. Twice also today when posting an anonymous comment and refreshing the page, it was no longer there. These weren't inflammatory, just things that revealed some personal info that I didn't want attributed to myself directly. Something is going on.
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The examples you gave -- USB1, PS2, serial -- are legacy ports. Nowadays, the vast majority of computers do not have any of these. USB3 on USB-C and Thunderbolt have replaced them. Yes USB2/3 steps down to USB1 speeds in most cases, but there are issues sometimes where it doesn't work and you actually have to replace the obsolete equipment or keep an old-style computer around. Yes, serial is sometimes used on old routers/switches which means you might need an adapter if you buy new equipment.
You seem very upset. Do you feel threatened by new things? Step off the amphetamines please.
US wages for service workers need to be enough for them to survive. They are kept artificially low which then makes the workers reliant on tips. Raise the minimum wage, people have money which they spend in the local economy and everyone prospers. Take a look at other places where minimum wages have risen and everything seems to be working out.
The alternative is what has been going on -- people without enough to live are sponsored by the Federal govt, which costs taxpayers, and companies are pushing automation even at POS which takes away more jobs. With the increases in performance through automation, some jobs will transition to robots and there's no going back.
What happens when your job is automated away, do we need to go to a guaranteed income? Do you see how complex this whole thing is, now that we don't require people to perform huge swaths of jobs anymore -- and those swaths are growing?
Your political leaning may determine whether you think of this as a crisis that needs solving to prevent the harm to people, or if you think "meh, it's their problem, the business' profits are more important than the humans' rights and comfort". The problem is too many people are in the latter group, and only after they have lost everything do they understand that putting corporations first means people get hurt.
That logic only holds while there are no 3rd party alternatives. Since there is a viable 3rd party ecosystem, this design change doesn't necessarily net Apple any money through adapters.
That doesn't mean I am happy I don't have a new headphone adapter on my Macbook Pro. Oh wait, even their base model has one. Maybe you're talking about the iMac not having a headphone jack. Oh wait... the iMac also has a headphone jack.
So your ire must be that the most portable Apple gadgets -- the iPhone and the iPad -- no longer tether the user unless you buy a dongle. I can't get excited about that, it doesn't affect me in any way, and if I wanted to use headphones with either device I would prefer not to be tethered to the device. Of course you may have a different opinion, but it seems silly to get all worked up about it. You don't get upset because there isn't a built-in SCSI or FireWire connector on modern computers do you? Even though we can all agree that those interfaces may have some utility to some people? Apple ditched the floppy and people lost their minds. They stopped providing parallel ports and surely the gods were mad at us and we would not survive. Yet we did, and today we're happy not to be burdened with extra legacy connectors. Do you really want USB2 or USB3 connectors on a new machine? Most people probably don't.
Painting this as some conspiracy to extract money is something only the paranoid do. We're better than that.
It is a national security issue to have independent manufacturing facilities. We don't want to be dependent on other countries' cooperation even if it's our fault we cause the relationship to be tarnished. As we have discovered it becomes more and more difficult to do this as time progresses and processes become even more intertwined and sophisticated.
There is no reason we cannot have both nurses and factory workers. Everyone needs to eat, give the available hands another opportunity to earn money and help them succeed in society. We cannot be a complete nation without our blue-collar brothers and sisters, and it is morally wrong to want that.
Ding ding ding, finally someone who understands the issue.
If we are to bring back manufacturing to the US, we have to start somewhere. Companies who have large volume and specialty requirements probably won't be the first ones leading this, there are way too many dependencies to make this happen. We need some smaller companies with more mainstream needs to lead the way.
I remember GEOS, thanks for bringing back some great memories!
Repo Man! lmao
I think his point is that you have to develop different ways of doing things when you get to a much larger scale, for instance the connectors and safeties that work at 20MW don't directly scale to 200MW. You have to make changes. Like many things, "scaling up" doesn't just mean you have the same setup only bigger.
Apple supports open source projects such as CUPS, Swift, Bonjour, Webkit... there are quite a few large projects. Check out https://developer.apple.com/op... . They design their own chips which are used in iPhone and iPad devices as well as a security / TouchBar chip used in their laptops. Those chips have industry-leading benchmarks. Other than Samsung they are one of the few that design their own chips.
Their products ARE different... that's why we buy them. Give them a try and see if it's for you... return them if you don't like them. Not everything is for everybody but lots of people have tried their products and are happy with them. Who knows you may be pleasantly surprised.
My iPhone XR can use any charging mat based on the Qi standard. I don't have to purchase one from Apple, the cheap one I bought works fine. Maybe the Apple version charges quicker but I don't really care, I charge it overnight while I sleep.
Wireless charging makes sense for some people in some circumstances. I bought a cheap "Atomi Power Pad 3x" mat which gives 10W for each of 3 pads placed next to each other. For me, the wear and tear on the rubberized case and charging cable over time is more inconvenient than putting the device on the pad when I sleep. This charger lights up when it's charging a device so it's pretty easy to place the phone on it in the dark. YMMV and all that.
Tying to a single vendor? Maybe I missed something, my iPhone XR uses an "Atomi Power Pad 3x" charging mat just fine. So apparently I have choices on which pad to use.
Are you upset because the Apple device may or may not work with non-Apple devices, is that it? I'm trying to understand the issue here. Another competing product usually makes everyone else tighten their stuff, resulting in better offerings for customers. Leapfrogging is great.
+1 Sad but true
Windows 10 has a bunch of serious issues, that's not news, and those who can avoid it are lucky. Guess what? My machine is wanting to install the Windows feature update again, and I'm staving it off because the last time I tried it, after 2 hours of WTF-is-it-doing and then trying to roll back, it left things in such a mess after the "successful" rollback that I restored the entire VM from backup.
This is one reason why I no longer store documents within the VM, and do most of my work remoted onto Windows servers which seem to have fewer issues. Between Office 365 "updates" and forced Windows "updates" my machine has never been so "updated" yet suffering from so many issues before... and I go back to Windows 3.0
I would create another VM from scratch, but Windows 10 is the issue here. What a hot mess!
I use a 32" Samsung TV -- neutered without wifi -- as my secondary monitor when I work from home. A single HDMI cable transfers sound and graphics to the TV. If you want to add a cable to a dock that provides all the other things you mention, you can do it with a single cable from a laptop to the dock. A phone may require a special converter, such as a Lightning-to-HDMI cable with passthrough power. Or you can use wireless charging if your phone is capable and simplify things a little bit.
The whole reason you want to use a separate dock is that interfaces and connections change very frequently. It's easier to get a dock with everything you want in it than try to get a decent TV also with every connector you want in it. For instance, this TV is going to need a wire with a plate for wireless phone charging, right? How long of a wire at what gauge? No, seriously, different wattage wireless phone charging solutions require limits on wire length. Same for the larger phone / tablet chargers, it often makes a lot of sense to use an electrical extension cord to get the wireless charger close to where you need it rather than extend the charger cable.
In the computer industry, different adapters have come and gone over the years, it's the same thing, better to have a dock you can replace than have a TV with the equivalent of yesterday's SCSi / serial / parallel interfaces on it.
No IP address / no wifi means it's secure :)
It's good to see someone else who remembers Sony's CD rootkit fiasco and their abrupt stance on their Linux add-ons. I won't buy Sony anymore either. My children got me a PS2 many many years ago and I still have it, that's the one exception.
I bought one before I knew about the problems. One fix: don't give the Samsung TV wifi access, and plug a Roku or such into it instead. The built-in Netflix and apps are so slow that they're almost useless anyway, apparently they skimped big-time on the CPU. Like you, I will never purchase a Samsung TV again.
I grew up in a different time. I'm sure things like this occurred infrequently. Nowadays people film bad behavior for laughs and share with their friends, each trying to be more outrageous. There seems to be little morality anymore, it's all selfishness and laughing at someone whom you've screwed over.
It really makes me depressed thinking about the future. It's like Clockwork Orange is being mimicked by the mainstream. How incredibly sad.
Absolutely agree. Craftsman electric tools have gotten worse over the years as many are rebranded Ryobi and others. Once Sears sold Craftsman rights to Lowe's they lost one of my only reasons for shopping at Sears -- note that was after Craftsman was purchased by Stanley. Maybe a better way to say that is here: https://www.chicagotribune.com...
I wear headphones for 2 reasons: I need to block out noise, and I want to listen to music in a place where I can't use my home audio system. That's pretty much it. I don't sleep with them, I don't even recline with them on, that isn't my use case. Mostly I wear them at work but not even daily, I have a lot of days where I would be constantly taking them off with interruptions.
My headphones' battery lasts well more than a workday, they claim 30 hours but I'm not exactly sure how long they last since I charge them every few times I use them. If you're wearing headphones so long each day at a power rating that eats batteries so quickly you need a second pair, you're at serious risk of damaged hearing and ear infections.
$60 for a pair -- or a second pair -- is probably trivial to most people, that's a night out at the movies for 2 people nowadays or a non-alcoholic dinner for 2, or a tank of premium gas, or a new game for your Playstation / XBox, or a few drinks in an upscale bar. If it's that important to you, you will find the funding for it.
A $5-10 pair of headphones is awful no matter what the connection choice is, you need to spend considerably more to have any quality. An inexpensive Bluetooth headset that works well for me is the Cowin E7, around $60 on Amazon right now. It offers automatic noise cancellation which you can turn off if you don't like it. I found with that on, and in normal ambient sound situations, it enhances the music by letting me lower the volume, sometimes to its minimal setting. If I am at home with one of my audio systems and everything is quiet and I'm willing to sit in the zone where everything is optimized, then of course the home audio system wins hands down. If I'm moving around, maybe cooking while listening to music, of course the staging isn't perfect and there is loss of quality.
So really the key is the environment in which you're using these. While staging for headphones can be really great, there is always something changed by using them. Same with a higher-end audio system in a noisy or acoustically poor environment. Even lower-end wireless solutions such as Rocketfish which uses radio to wirelessly transmit sound to speakers has better quality than you will notice in most environments.
Best not to use the word "Technically" when you have zero technical comprehension.
Well to be fair, he had some comprehension, but the quantizing steps rounded it down to zero...
Huh? Did you even try to Google for that? Of course you can revert to an older version. You do need a computer. Phone store employees can help you also, they just want your phone to work so they can bill you for service.
https://www.newsweek.com/remov...
https://www.imore.com/how-to-d...
I went back to look at some comments I made earlier today and although they're listed in the "comments" right-hand scrollbar, when I actually click on my comments list, they do not show. Twice also today when posting an anonymous comment and refreshing the page, it was no longer there. These weren't inflammatory, just things that revealed some personal info that I didn't want attributed to myself directly. Something is going on.